Aren't people in power, no matter the era, desperate to leave their name in history?

Rather than "house", I'd say it's more accurate to say we're playing "politics".

The powerful men of old used fear through direct violence, wealth, brainwashing, and so forth to obtain power.

The three plaintiffs in this case were Meletus the poet, Anytus the politician, and Lycon the orator.

If your clan happens to lose its struggle for power, what are you going to tell the people who placed their fate in your hands?

Next, the "powers which oppose us" and "the bureaucracy" are the teachers.

Yeah, I'm at the age where you feel like rebelling against authority.

There are those who wish for power, those who seek to protect themselves, those who pursue pleasure, and those whose goals are unclear.

Ooh, I heard that you gave some aristocrat a thrashing.

This is abuse of state power!

Why would a powerful man at the top of the company

Money and power are both sides of the same coin. A person who can raise money has power.

Because that's what traitorous cowards do when they desire power.

He's nothing more than a barbarian renegade, whose lust for power has cost the lives of countless innocents.

Why, the titans of entertainment in Alpha Centauri!

I have something better. Pure fisstech - at a special discount for an officer of the law.

And that should change as well. A strong leader who wields true power - that is what the times require.

I knew I had to find Ciri before Eredin did. And if any man had the power and the means to help me, it was the emperor.

Saburo Arasaka, the poor chap. World's most powerful turned into a commercial hack.

The true authority in Novigrad is not the city council or the merchant's guild, but the Church of the Eternal Fire and the criminal underworld.